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Nov 13

Practicalities of Internet Filtering/Censoring

Oct 22

TinyMe - small gnu/linux distro based on PCLinuxOS

TinyMe, a remaster of PCLinuxOS, comes packaged in a miniscule 200MB or smaller ISO. We do this for those of you who have old computers, like to mess around with small/fast systems, or just want a minimal environment. TinyMe is comparable to distributions like Puppy, AntiX, and DSL. If you like small distributions of Linux, give TinyMe a try.

Oct 22

“If you want a collection you can count on, PIRATE IT.”

[xkcd - Steal This Comic]

Oct 21

whos.amung.us - real time statistics for your website

Do you have a website, blog or social network profile? Would you like to know the number of readers you have? Want to instantly see where your visitors are from? Or find out when you had the most people online?

Oct 21

Appnr - Browser interface to Ubuntu Applications!

Appnr is a web-based tool and a service that install applications on Ubuntu. This is a web interface for APT, and the package is downloaded and installed from Ubuntu/Third-party repositories.

The AptURL Protocol Handler and a Web browser support are required to install applications

Oct 21

How to ROFL [via - Mark@FriendFeed]

Oct 14

My average Twitter update rate is 70.85 milliscobles.

Oct 13

nanite - Multiple Ruby Daemons

A Nanite system has two types of components. There are nanite agents, these are the daemons where you implement your code functionality as actors. And then there are mappers. Mappers are the control nodes of the system. There can be any number of mappers, these typically run inside of your merb or rails app running on the thin webserver(eventmachine is needed) But you can also run command line mappers with a shell into the system.

Oct 13

Reinteract - Shell for Python

Reinteract is a system for interactive experimentation with python. You enter Python code and expressions and immediately see the results. What distinguishes Reinteract from a shell (such as IPython or the builtin interactive mode) is that you can go back and edit expressions you entered earlier and the results will flow through the part of the worksheet after the changed portion.

Oct 12

Liquid Mongoose - Folding Paper into CD and DVD Cases

The Paper Case project allows you to print a fold-able piece of paper into a CD or DVD case, using the content of the internet as your album art or movie cover. Currently, it supports music album printing on music.aol.com and movie cover printing on Netflix.